LEADER 03075nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910811642603321 005 20240313190340.0 010 $a1-60938-159-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000341938 035 $a(EBL)1162037 035 $a(OCoLC)836403105 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000856341 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11440464 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856341 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10806376 035 $a(PQKB)10897760 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1162037 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26983 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1162037 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10684330 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000341938 100 $a20121115d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJames Weldon Johnson's modern soundscapes /$fby Noelle Morrissette 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-158-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The Ragtime Reinventions of James Weldon (William) Johnson -- Biography of the Race: Musical Comedy and the Modern Soundscape of the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- Cultures of Talk: Diplomacy, Nation, and Race in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- The Interpolated Body: Passing, Same-sex Talk, and Discursive Formations in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- Cosmopolitan Travels: Diplomacy, Translation, and Performance in the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Der Weisse Neger, 1928) and God's Trombones -- Framing Black Expressive Culture: Prefaces to the Book of American Negro Poetry, the Book of American Negro Spirituals, and God's Trombones -- "The Creation": God's Trombones and Johnson's Formation of a Black Modernist Poetics -- From Noun to Verb: Black Phonographic Voice in Black Manhattan -- Not the Story of My Life: Along This Way -- Afterword: Remembering James Weldon Johnson. 330 $aJames Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes provides an evocative and meticulously researched study of one of the best known and yet least understood authors of the New Negro Renaissance era. Johnson, familiar to many as an early civil rights leader active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and an intentionally controversial writer on the subject of the significance of race in America, was one of the most prolific, wide-ranging, and yet elusive authors of twentieth-century African American literature.Johnson realized early in his 606 $aMusic in literature 607 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aMusic in literature. 676 $a818/.5209 700 $aMorrissette$b Noelle$01666247 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811642603321 996 $aJames Weldon Johnson's modern soundscapes$94025400 997 $aUNINA